DEATH IN D MINOR

A Gethsemane Brown Mystery

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Pub Date Jul 11 2017 | Archive Date Jul 10 2017

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“The captivating southwestern Irish countryside adds a delightful element to this paranormal series launch. Gethsemane is an appealing protagonist who is doing the best she can against overwhelming odds.” – Library Journal (starred review on Murder in G Major)

Gethsemane Brown, African-American classical musician and expatriate to an Irish village, solved a string of murders, led a school orchestra to victory in a major competition, and got used to living with a snarky ghost. She can rest easy over the Christmas holiday. Right? Wrong. The ghost has disappeared, her landlord's about to sell her cottage to a hotel developer, and her brother-in-law is coming for a visit—with one day’s notice.

She scrambles to call her spectral roomie back from beyond and find a way to save the cottage from certain destruction. But real estate takes a backseat when her brother-in-law is accused of stealing a valuable antique. Gethsemane strikes a deal with a garda investigator to go undercover as a musician at a charity ball and snoop for evidence linking antiques to a forgery/theft ring in exchange for the investigator’s help clearing her brother-in-law. At the party, she accidentally conjures the ghost of an eighteenth-century sea captain, then ends up the prime suspect in the party host’s murder. With the captain’s help, she races to untangle a web of phony art and stolen antiques to exonerate herself and her brother-in-law. Then the killer targets her. Will she save herself and bring a thief and murderer to justice, or will her encore investigation become her swan song?

“Erstwhile ghost conjurer and gifted concert violinist Gethsemane Brown returns in this thoroughly enjoyable follow-up to last year’s Murder in G Major...With the help of a spectral sea captain she accidentally summoned, Gethsemane tries to unravel the mystery as the murderer places her squarely in the crosshairs.” – Daniel J. Hale, Agatha Award-Winning Author

Books in the Gethsemane Brown Mystery Series:

MURDER IN G MAJOR (#1)
DEATH IN D MINOR (#2)

Part of the Henery Press Mystery Series Collection, if you like one, you'll probably like them all.

Author Bio: A writer since childhood, Alexia Gordon won her first writing prize in the 6th grade. She continued writing through college but put literary endeavors on hold to finish medical school and Family Medicine residency training. She established her medical career then returned to writing fiction. Raised in the southeast, schooled in the northeast, she relocated to the west where she completed Southern Methodist University's Writer's Path program. She admits Texas brisket is as good as Carolina pulled pork. She practices medicine in North Chicago, IL. She enjoys the symphony, art collecting, embroidery, and ghost stories.


“The captivating southwestern Irish countryside adds a delightful element to this paranormal series launch. Gethsemane is an appealing protagonist who is doing the best she can against overwhelming...


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I loved this book, even more than the first one, and I didn't think that was possible. I loved having ghosts and a main character who was African American and a classically trained musician. And the ending had a twist! So excited for the next book!

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Author Alexia Gordon proves that her wonderful debut novel was no fluke.

Internationally recognized concert violinist-turned-music teacher Gethsemane Brown returns in this lively, humorous sequel. So does Hank Wayne, an unscrupulous American hotelier who has long wanted to buy Brown’s cottage in the out-of-the-way Irish village of Dunmullach. Wayne’s goal is to tear down the former home of the late internationally renowned composer Eamon McCarthy to make way for a pink atrocity of a hotel, destroying history and blighting the village at the same time. Brown is determined to stop him. If only she could call on the spirit of the late Eamon McCarthy! But he crossed over in Murder in G Major. How can Brown stop Wayne? And can she somehow conjure the sarcastic, profane McCarthy back up so as to help her?

Meantime, Brown and her museum curator brother-in-law become ensnared in an investigation into an art forgery ring. This secondary plot didn’t detract a bit from the first, instead adding some additional suspense. I couldn’t put Death in D Minor down — clichéd though that sounds. I read FAR too late into the night! The sequel’s as magical as the debut.

In the interest of full disclosure, I received this book from NetGalley and Henery Press in exchange for an honest review.

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